
Group Leader, Urban Development
2 days ago
Group Leader, Urban Development (Civil) - ( 250001FH )
**Description**
**About the role**
We’re seeking a passionate and experienced engineering **Group Leader - Urban Development** to join our dynamic team in Canberra. This is your opportunity to step into a strategic leadership role with a growing engineering consultancy committed to shaping sustainable, community-focused infrastructure. You’ll lead a talented and stable team, drive project excellence, and play a key role in growing our presence across the ACT. If you’re ready to influence real change and build a legacy in the nation’s capital, we want to hear from you.
The Group Leader role is ideal for a proactive individual ready to advance their career by embracing leadership responsibilities. This position requires someone who is not only technically proficient but also capable of guiding and delivering projects for our clients. You will provide leadership to your teams to ensure alignment to company vision, strategy, initiatives, and culture. You will be the advocate of the business both internally within Stantec and externally to clients and professional organisations.
**Day to day tasks would involve**:
**Support in Operations and Performance**
- Support the Business Leader with monitoring and reporting on the performance of the teams.
- Work with the Business Leader in preparing annual BC business plans.
- Work with partner Group Leaders (GLs) / Team Leaders (TLs) in other regions to drive collaboration and work sharing across the BC.
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the correct staffing level and shape based on current and future workloads for their teams, and to support needs of other regions where required.
**Business Development and Client Relationship Management**
- Initiate and manage business development opportunities, actively participate in and lead client service through establishing and maintaining strong relationships.
- Coordinate resource and technical development requirements with Practice Leaders, technical Discipline Leaders and other Group Leaders based locally and in other BC offices.
- Prepare and/or review proposals, variation estimates, and submission documents, and review and evaluate subconsultant submissions to ensure they are suitable.
**People Leadership**
- Participate in projects as either Project Manager, Project Technical Leader or other substantive technical or delivery role.
- Responsible for the team’s talent management lifecycle including but not limited to; recruitment suggestions, career development, employee engagement, succession planning, coaching and mentoring, diversity and inclusion, and leadership development.
- Foster a success-oriented environment within the teams by displaying collaborative behaviours and exerting measured and balanced influence.
**Quality and Innovation**
- Work with project delivery teams and Practice Leaders to drive quality and timely delivery of project deliverables to meet but preferably to exceed client expectations.
- Work with the Business Leader to ensure that QSE requirements are met.
- Complete all work in line with Stantec Core Values and in accordance with the Stantec Quality Systems and Project Quality Procedures.
- Minimise and control risk by commitment to the Stantec Risk Management Policy, Quality, and Health & Safety programmes and ensuring proactive use of our project management systems.
**Qualifications**
**To be successful for this role you'll need**:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications, preferably post-graduate.
- Minimum of 10 years’ related work, leadership, financial management and consulting experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- A broad range of skills covering people management, business development, project delivery and business management.
- Professional registration in a related field.
- Experience in managing teams with direct line management duties.
- Highly developed consulting skills to liaise with clients and other stakeholders to achieve mutually successful project outcomes.
- Well-developed problem solving and negotiations skills to resolve queries.
**What we offer**
Along with a competitive salary we offer many other benefits to ensure your professional development & wellbeing is ongoing.
- Genuine Flexible Working Arrangements - Including work from home opportunities, provision for school term contracts, job sharing and part time employment.
- Option to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave.
- Learning and Talent Development Programs - Including Global programmes, online learning and on-the-job learning
- Mentoring for your own development and the opportunity to mentor others
- A friendly team environment, with dedicated and enthusiastic staff committed to producing high quality service and deliverables
- Professional Memberships
- Salary Continuance Insurance (SCI)
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Programs
- Service Recognition Awards
- Employee Assistance Program
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